20th Century History

Through conversation, essays, photos, and drawings, this book documents and explores Francis Alys' new project Seven Walks. Over the past five years, Francis Alys has been walking the streets of...

The author presents a survey of over 30 Swedish designers, from glass and textile designers to ceramic artists and furniture makers, which provides an insight into Scandanavian design philosophies. The...

Drawing inspiration from his Persian roots, Arash Hashemi, the creator of ShredHappens, brings together his Mediterranean favourites and other world cuisines to create delectable spice combinations and sauces for his...

"New Art Two" continues the pattern established by its popular predecessor presenting profiles of important contemporary artists in Australia - whether newly arrived, emerging or increasingly recognized. This volume presents...

Now available for the first time in paperback, this extraordinary book examines the 'culture of excess' in all its twentieth-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration: all feature in...

Looks at how textiles have changed during the past two hundred years and discusses taste and technical innovation.

A revelatory exploration of how today's right-wing authoritarianism emerged not in opposition to neoliberalism, but from within it After the end of the Cold War, neoliberalism, with its belief in...

The first full history for forty years of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind it Henry Becquerel's accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint...

A unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in...

A major new history of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic...

An ambitious and engagingly history of how encounters with Christianity have shaped Hindu identity and nationalism in colonial and contemporary India When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth...

Conjuring up the atmosphere of the 1950s, this text is full of period classics, from designer creations to chainstore kitsch, from objects worth thousands of pounds to neglected treasures for...

Mediterranea is a delicious deep-dive into the kitchens of the Med's most qualified cooks: its grandmothers. A colourful, sensory journey through the coastal region, this book is a celebration of...

From war with the British to the enslavement of Indians, Ivermee uncovers the dark history of France's doomed imperial project in South Asia. This is a powerful new account of...

First published in 1974, Into the Hollow Mountains was a landmark book featuring black-and-white images taken by Robert Ashton around the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, alongside original writing from local...

Ellie's Table is a recipe book rich with storytelling, exploring chef Ellie Bouhadana's mixed Jewish background through food - from Morocco to the Mediterranean. In her debut cookbook, Ellie shares...

Fortuny was also a celebrated designer of interior furnishings, theatre sets and costumes. Fortuny belongs in the pantheon of Art Nouveau and the Gilded Age, with Tiffany, Galle, the Pre-Raphaelites,...

How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problems Political thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw...

Painting is enjoying a remarkable creative renaissance in the 21st century. Many of the world's leading artists now work in this most enduring and seductive of media. 100 Painters of...

This is a story of the vainglorious and often brutal attempt to control and harvest the Earth's most precious resource.

This volume of the "Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia" covers social, economic and political changes that have taken place since 1800. With over 2400 alphabetically arranged entries, and maps and diagrams integrated...

This work is intended for general readers of military history titles, especially works in this series and Guns and Brooches . Veterans and descendants of the WRAAC. Also military historians...

One afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of...

One of the Great Modern Masters series of monographs on 20th-century artists, this volume offers an introduction to Paul Klee, reproducing major works from all periods of his career. At...

This extraordinary, visual journey documents Nelson Mandela's 27 years in prison on Robben Island and contains previously unpublished images, documents, and diary and letter excerpts, as well as some original...

Few sports can match the vitality, extravagance and spectacle of a motor race - a celebration of speed, individual achievement and technical excellence; a triumph of commercialism, a slice of...

This is the story of a woman who played a significant role in the avant-garde of Paris in the 1920s. A working woman, wife and mother, Sonia Delauney was married...

This is the second and final volume of the first true biography of Henri Matisse. Until publication of The Unknown Matisse (volume one), the few facts known about Matisse's life...

Imants Tillers was born in Sydney in 1950 of Latvian parents. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and the University...

The FASHION MEMOIRS series capture each designer's style and contribution to fashion history. A master of prints and layering, Kenzo is also a musician of colour, multiplying its combinations, liberating...

The outstanding legacy of the Russian goldsmith and jeweler Carl Faberge has captured the public's imagination for many years. During his lifetime, Faberge's extravagant jewelry and "objects d'art" brought him...

Since its inception nearly 25 years ago, the feminist art movement has transformed the art world. Now, co-editors Norma Broude and Mary D. Gaffard, professors of art history at the...

During the Second World War, Winston Churchill won two resounding victories. The first was a victory over Nazi Germany, the second a victory over the legion of sceptics who had...

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners"...

Carlos Mota is the mastermind behind the amazing photographs seen in all the top design magazines, including Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and Interior Design, to name a few. His gifted...

From the Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure - an eerie historical mystery about desire, memory and madness If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made...

Ruth Orkin is a legend of street photography - her atmospheric pictures taken in cities such as Florence, New York and London still shape the image of these metropolises today....

This rich treasure trove of twentieth century Batsford book covers showcases the very best of Batsford's design heritage. Founded by Bradley Thomas Batsford in 1843, Batsford has forged a strong...

In Termites of the State, renowned public economist Vito Tanzi presents a sweeping account of the industrialized world's economic development during the twentieth century to today. In the tradition of...